Jar or bottle closure.



No. 656,543. Patented Aug. 2:,1900.

H.. A. HUGHES. l Y JAR 0R BOTTLE CLOSUBE.

lApplz'csJsion` led Fehl, 1900.) v (No Model.)

UNITEDY STATES PATENT (")EEIcE0 HENRY ALBERT HUGHES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

JARoR BOTTLE oLosURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,548, dated" August 21, 1900.

Application filed February 15 1900. Serial No, 5,481. (No model.) A

To @ZZ whom t may con/cern:

Beit known that LHENRY ALBERT HUGHES, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Jar or Bottle Closures, of which the followin gis a specification.

My invention relates particularly to closures for glass jars and bottles containing fruit juices, Syrups, and other food products of a more or less viscid consistency, the object of my invention being to produce a closure that will eiectually prevent leakage from such jars or bottles. y

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichi Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion of an ordinary fruit-jar, showing my improved closure applied thereto, with the metal top or cap removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a bottle, showing my closureapplied thereto.

My improved closureconsists of a woven fabric impregnated and coated with paraffinwax. I have discovered ,that paraffin-wax when heated will adhere to glass and form practically a hermetic seal between the fabric with which it is coated and the glass of the jar orbottle. A jar or bottle thus sealed will not leak, as the wax will effectually resist the elements of the matter 'contained therein which usually attack the other forms of sealing-closures.

In carrying my invention intol practice I take the jar or bottle A or A after it has been filled with syrup, fruit juice, or other similar article of `food of a sticky or viscid nature, and on the top and around the edgeuof said jar or bottle I placea piece of Woven fabric B, impregnated and `thickly coated with paraffin-wax. To secure the waxed fabric to the glass of the jar or bottle I may use a suita able tool adapted to 'pass around the edge of the jar or bottle and heat such tool, so as to melt the wax sufciently to cause it to adhere to the glass. When cool, the wax will hold the cloth to the glass inthe shapeit has been pressed by the heated tool.` After this has been done the cover C (for the jar) may be screwedin place. For the bottle I prefer to use a soft-metal cap C', which will have its edge c crimped, so as to be securely held in place.

Instead of usinga heated `tool to secure the waxed Afabric to the jar I may heat the top C before the same-is applied to the jar, so that when said top is screwed in place it will come in contact with the waxed cloth and melt the wax of the same sufficiently to con` fine the latter to the jar, thus effecting a pera fect Huid-tight closure. Y

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- v a a A closure for jars or bottles for containing syrups,fruit juices ,or other matter of a sticky,

viscidnature, consisting of a waxed clothl adapted to extend over the mouth and around the edge of the jar or bottle and caused to ad*- here tothe outer surface of the same by the `external application of heat, in combination witha metallic cap detachably secured to the neck of the jar or bottle and serving to protect the waxed cloth sealing the same, sub- Vstantially as described. 

